Neoconservatives Vs. “McCarthyism”

Rather than own up to their moral blindness to Soviet espionage, Democrats fired up the liberal slander machine, which would be deployed again and again over the next half century to the present day. In hiding their own perfidy, liberals were guilty of every sin they lyingly imputed to McCarthy. There were no “McCarthyites” until liberals came along. [AnnCoulter.com MCCARTHYISM: THE ROSETTA STONE OF LIBERAL LIES November 7, 2007]

Alarms about the political subversion of the academic curriculum were first sounded more than a quarter of a century ago with such books as The Closing of the American Mind, Illiberal Education and Tenured Radicals.

A “quarter of a century ago” is when Horowitz and others started to have “second thoughts.”

Sam Francis said that once you understood what neoconservatism is–“a brand of liberalism that likes to masquerade as a phony conservatism, mainly so it can wheedle influence in the Republican Partyâ€”the puzzle is solved.”